New Approaches to Effective Leadership: Cognitive Resources and Organizational Performance

by Fred Edward Fiedler and Joseph E. Garcia

This book presents a new theory of leadership and management. It provides a clearer understanding of why leaders are effective, the specific characteristics of a good leader, and how to increase effectiveness of leaders and their organizations. It incorporates such elements as the leader's personality, situational factors and stress, leader behavior, and the cognitive resource variables of intelligence, technical knowledge and skills and experience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471874566
• ISBN13: 9780471874560
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.